How To Properly Change Product Key Of Office 2016/2013

Do you want to change the product key of Office 2013 or Office 2016? Would you like to change Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 2016 product key without re-installing the Office suite? In this guide, we will show how you can change or update the product key.

Most Office users never find the necessity to change the product key. Users who had entered a pirated key or users who had entered the product key of a different edition of Office might need to change or update the current key with a new product key in order to active Office 2013 properly.

If you’re running a version of Office 2016/2013 and want to change its product key for some reasons, you can do so easily by following the instructions in one of the two given methods. The first method uses the GUI to change the Office product key, whereas the second method is for users who prefer to change the product key using Command Prompt.

Follow the given below instructions to change or update Office 2013/2016 product key in Windows.

Change or update Office 2016/2013 license key

METHOD 1 of 2

Step 1: Open Programs and Features. To do so, type Programs and Features in Start menu search box or Start screen, and then press Enter key.

Or

Open Run command box with the help of Windows+R hotkey, type Appwiz.cpl in the box, and then press Enter key.

Step 2 via CMD prompt worked for me, the version of 2013 that I had didn’t offer product key change when selecting “change” from the add/remove programs. Side note: even though I was running x64 version the vbs file was in the 32-bit folder.